Speech and Sun: New Research on Climate and How We Speak
not all languages have the same color terms. If you give speakers of different languages a color spectrum and ask them to label when one color becomes another, they will give different answers
Monica A. Winkler • This is how your language affects your thoughts
Studies like this could also open new paths to insights into human societies, for example on the topic of migration. "If languages adapt to their environment in a slow process lasting thousands of years, then they carry some clues about the environment of their predecessor languages," says the Kiel linguist.
PhysOrg.com • Linguistics Study Claims That Languages Are Louder in the Tropics
The model used recordings made before the winterers left to simulate what might happen to their accents as they spent time together. Their prediction was unerringly accurate, even if it did exaggerate the effects compared to what happened in real life. The winterers themselves wouldn't have noticed either as they happened over time. But when the
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